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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
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<DIV>I recently developed a MediaWiki extension, that allows to export news in
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format in easy manner. The extension is called "News
Channel" and is now available at <A
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel</A>.
Basically, when user or aggregation program requests a feed, the
extension gets specified number of latest articles from some specified
category (e.g. [[Category:Published]]), exports it to RSS/Atom feed format
and sends to user. Articles's title will be the headline and article's text will
be the description of news item. Feed is automatically linked from every page of
the wiki, like recent changes feed is linked. First I developed it for my own
site, but I thought it could be useful for other projects, especially for
Wikinews. Customization is possible.</DIV>
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<DIV>What do you think?</DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Iaroslav Vassiliev</DIV></BODY></HTML>